absorption coefficient

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• February 26. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  absorption coefficient — noun — english

  a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber; "absorptance equals 1 minus transmittance"